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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Just today I discovered that Oracle changed the nomenclature used to refer to Critical Patch Updates.

Up through the patch bundle issued in October 2007, these were referred to by the date of release. The October 2007 release was "Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2007", often shortened to "CPU Oct 2007". Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2007

When viewing the documentation for the October 2007 CPU you will see this: